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  • In the back bedroom he could hear trains passing. Lying beside his sleeping brother, he'd listen to the broad, low sound: faint, then rising, faint again, then a high, beckoning whistle, then gone. The sound of it brought goose bumps. Lost in longing, Louie imagined himself on a train...   (source)
    beckoning = calling (figuratively, by being desirable)
  • "Lily," Mother said, beckoning to the little girl, "Go on now and get into your nightclothes."   (source)
    beckoning = signaling (by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • A few moments later, Father came back into the room and beckoned to Mother.   (source)
    beckoned = called (to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • As we crossed the school lawn, Stacey beckoned Christopher-John, Little Man, and me aside.   (source)
    beckoned = called (to come by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • Moments before I got to see the tunnel with the light at the end and the angels beckoning me to join them, she lifted me out of the water.   (source)
    beckoning = calling
  • But just as he was leaving, Audrius beckoned.   (source)
    beckoned = called (to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • The kapo beckons Gita with her finger.   (source)
    beckons = calls (to come nearer by using a hand gesture)
  • Inns and cafes beckoned from among stands of tall trees.   (source)
    beckoned = called (figuratively, by being desirable)
  • When Christina catches my eye, she beckons to me, smiling, so my mother and I cross the Pit floor.   (source)
    beckons = calls (to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • Ralph was on his third Sunkist Orange when he stopped his stream of confessions, leaned forward, and beckoned us closer.   (source)
    beckoned = called (to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • Come summer, the spirit turns, and the seashore beckons with a song of the waves, and people gather for carousels and Ferris wheels and sweet iced drinks and cotton candy.   (source)
    beckons = calls (figuratively by being desirable)
  • The second gate opened, and the exit beckoned.   (source)
    beckoned = called (figuratively, by leading to a desired goal)
  • Home, where the backyard always beckoned, always safe and protected by the house and the barn and the woods.   (source)
    beckoned = called (figuratively, by being desirable)
  • Aris opens a door and beckons for Thomas to follow him.   (source)
    beckons = calls (to follow by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • Charles Wallace walked through it, beckoned to Meg and Calvin, and they followed.   (source)
    beckoned = called (to follow by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • I moved faster when I saw Jem far ahead beckoning in the moonlight.   (source)
    beckoning = called (to come by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • She could hear her voice, and the voice of another, and then saw a hand extended from within a stall to beckon Celaena inside.   (source)
    beckon = call (to come by using a hand gesture)
  • Although I was walking straight toward his front door he beckoned me on several times, and he never took his eyes from me, as though it was they which held me to my course.   (source)
    beckoned = called (to come by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • After a moment, he turns back around and gestures, beckoning me inside.   (source)
    beckoning = calling (to come by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • The first people who saw him ran away, but he stood beckoning to them.   (source)
    beckoning = calling (to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • He was eager, impatient, beckoning, so that Roger went to him.   (source)
    beckoning = called (to come by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • All turn to see as he beckons in Mary Warren with Proctor.   (source)
    beckons = calls (to come by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • He beckoned our neighbor over and handed Mom to him.   (source)
    beckoned = called (to come by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • Cops gestured; cops whistled and beckoned.   (source)
    beckoned = called (to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • This morning I was in for a nasty surprise: after breakfast Peter beckoned me upstairs.   (source)
    beckoned = called (to come by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • She beckoned to a waitress and asked for more coffee.   (source)
  • She grinned and beckoned me over the wall when she saw me standing there.   (source)
    beckoned = called (to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • Lestat sat down and beckoned her to sit in his lap.   (source)
    beckoned = called (to come by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • After a while he beckoned me over with one of his long arms.   (source)
    beckoned = called (to come)
  • Where the worm had passed there remained that tantalizing gap. It flowed bitterly endless before them, beckoning beneath its horizontal collapse of skyline.   (source)
    beckoning = calling (figuratively, by being desirable)
  • 'Ssshh!' whispered Grandpa Joe, and he beckoned Charlie to come closer.   (source)
    beckoned = called (to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • Brothers beckoned me to him.   (source)
  • The two women step out, beckoning to the girls to follow them.   (source)
    beckoning = calling (to follow by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • They did not want to follow when he beckoned, but reluctantly, they followed Daagoo into the night for what seemed a long time.   (source)
    beckoned = called (to follow by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • She beckoned to him longingly, with a husky laugh.   (source)
    beckoned = called (to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • Beside them stood four white men and as we came down the trail, one of the men beckoned us to walk faster.   (source)
    beckoned = signaled (by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • Instead, he beckons me to follow him to a weed-choked backstreet nearby.   (source)
    beckons = calls (to follow by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • I could see my book sort of beckoning to me, saying, "Come and read me, come and read me, you know you want to."   (source)
    beckoning = calling
  • Too often in that wind, in that fog, she'd heard her name called—a beckoning she refused to answer.   (source)
    beckoning = call
  • Riff steps forward and beckons to his girl, Velma.   (source)
    beckons = calls (to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • I take a step back, my warm bed beckoning, when I think of something to say.   (source)
    beckoning = calling (figuratively, by being desirable)
  • I looked back over my shoulder, and there was Joe and Ned on the other bank beckoning for me to come back to them.   (source)
    beckoning = calling (to come by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • They did not speak to their passenger or to each other, and when one of them beckoned to him to follow, Jan realized something that he should have thought of before.   (source)
    beckoned = called (to follow by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • Ladies waved and beckoned with their fans, conversation opened up.   (source)
    beckoned = called (to come nearer by using a hand gesture)
  • Her mother waved, beckoning her to return.†   (source)
    beckoning = calling -- typically to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod
  • She walked past me and down the hallway of the main office to the sickroom, beckoning with her fingers for me to follow.†   (source)
  • In response to Davis' beckoning finger, a man detached himself from a nearby wall against which he was leaning and came up to them.   (source)
    beckoning = calling (to come by using a hand gesture)
  • Beckoning to a fair-haired, ruddy young man who happened to be passing at the moment.   (source)
    beckoning = calling (to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • The cook with his carroty head is begging us to eat; he beckons with his ladle to every one that passes, and spoons him out a great dollop.   (source)
    beckons = calls (to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • "Well, bring in the bride," said Gerald, and Pork, turning, beckoned into the hall to his wife, newly arrived from the Wilkes plantation to become part of the household of Tara.   (source)
    beckoned = called (to come by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • The next afternoon Anne, bending over her patchwork at the kitchen window, happened to glance out and beheld Diana down by the Dryad's Bubble beckoning mysteriously.   (source)
    beckoning = calling (to come by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • ...he saw the men between himself and the table part and become a lane of grim faces, at the end of which he saw the justice, a shabby, collarless, graying man in spectacles, beckoning him.   (source)
    beckoning = calling (to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • So peremptorily did these shades beckon him, that each day mankind and the claims of mankind slipped farther from him.   (source)
    beckon = call
  • Then Van Helsing beckoned to me, and we went gently out of the room.   (source)
    beckoned = called (to come by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • The crowd parted as the woman beckoned Mowgli to her hut, where there was a red lacquered bedstead, a great earthen grain chest with funny raised patterns on it, half a dozen copper cooking pots, an image of a Hindu god in a little alcove, and on the wall a real looking glass, such as they sell at the country fairs.   (source)
  • And with a great voice he said:
    When love beckons to you, follow him,
    Though his ways are hard and steep.   (source)
    beckons = calls
  • Two nights after the dawning of Peter's idea he beckoned the girls mysteriously at the twilight hour. 'Come hither with me,' he said, 'and bring the Roman Chariot.'   (source)
    beckoned = called (to come)
  • He slowly made out that the driver, a young man in coffee-colored loose motor coat and hectic checked cap and intense neckwear, was Clif Clawson, and that Clif was beckoning.   (source)
    beckoning = calling (to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • And every now and then he turns upon his companions, nodding, signaling, beckoning frantically—with every inch of him appealing, imploring, in behalf of the muses and their call.   (source)
    beckoning = signaling
  • A door opened, a white-haired secretarial head, but wearing a compassionate expression, appeared, and a skinny forefinger beckoned me into the sanctuary.   (source)
    beckoned = called (to come by using a hand gesture)
  • "I'll tell you," said the doctor, beckoning over Sludin's head to his coachman to bring the carriage round.   (source)
    beckoning = calling (to come by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • But the visionary little maid on her part, beckoned likewise, as if to say—"This is a better place; come thou into the pool."   (source)
    beckoned = called (to come by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • He passed on and ascended the stairs, still holding my hand, and still beckoning the gentlemen to follow him, which they did.   (source)
    beckoning = calling (to follow by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • Genius, he held, is necessarily intolerant of fetters: on the one hand it must have the utmost play for its spontaneity; on the other, it may confidently await those messages from the universe which summon it to its peculiar work, only placing itself in an attitude of receptivity towards all sublime chances. ... The superadded circumstance which would evolve the genius had not yet come; the universe had not yet beckoned.   (source)
    beckoned = called
  • the soup ladle was walking up the table towards Alice's chair, and beckoning to her impatiently to get out of its way.   (source)
    beckoning = signaling
  • But calm, snow-white, and unvarying; still directing its fountain of feathers to the sky; still beckoning us on from before, the solitary jet would at times be descried.   (source)
    beckoning = calling (to follow)
  • "Ah, it is Jacopo," she said, "the captain of the yacht;" and she beckoned him towards them.   (source)
    beckoned = called (to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • "Little one!" repeated the captain; and he beckoned her to approach.   (source)
  • He nearly fainted; but the police inspector beckoned to him with his hand and said, "Come here, my dear sir."   (source)
    beckoned = called (to come nearer by using a hand gesture)
  • At the drinking-hole she will strip, and when he sees her beckoning he will embrace her and the game of the wilderness will surely reject him.   (source)
    beckoning = calling (figuratively, by being desirable)
  • Then she spun back around to face me, suspended and floating, smiling and holding out her hand, beckoning me to join her.†   (source)
  • From halfway across the Graveyard, Cleaver sees the smoke rising in the distance, beckoning him.†   (source)
  • The silver-haired man beckoned insistently.†   (source)
  • A throbbing whisper, "Pur-ple, pur-ple" (or was it "Tur-tle, Tur-tle"—whatever it was, it was scary), had beckoned her to the master bedroom on the second floor, and Maybe it was a dream.†   (source)
  • The open road beckoned.†   (source)
  • Peter, if you're just going to go running every time she beckons, I don't see a point to any of this.†   (source)
  • He liked the word beckon; he would have said, "Adventure beckons," and would have gone off to prowl around the ship.†   (source)
  • The tattered canvas beckoned as the only handhold on the otherwise smooth ship.†   (source)
  • Twelve years later she would still see him this way, standing at the edge of the strawberry fields beneath the cover of the silent cedars, a handsome boy with one arm outstretched, beckoning her to come back.†   (source)
  • I repeat it aloud, saying it to the world, which includes her: "A world lost, a world unsuspected beckons to new places and no whiteness (lost) is so white as the memory of whiteness."†   (source)
  • He lowered his gun and beckoned her toward the staircase.†   (source)
  • When he was settled, the old man beckoned Catelyn forward and planted a papery dry kiss on her hand.†   (source)
  • He felt her hands on his back, beckoning him.†   (source)
  • And then I have another plan: I hold up the Polaroid camera, beckoning Lili with my finger.†   (source)
  • His mouth stuffed full, he beckoned for Sticky to follow him.†   (source)
  • I whirled, expecting the worst, but instead saw Bruce Lunardi, hunched over, beckoning to us.†   (source)
  • This time it was a subtle promise, a tantalizing hint of beauty still withheld, a beckoning to her spirit to follow she knew not where.†   (source)
  • Comrade Pillai beckoned to her and whispered in her ear.†   (source)
  • Ford beckoned to Prosser, who sadly, awkwardly, sat down in the mud.†   (source)
  • Freedom beckoned.†   (source)
  • At the Quinto Patio, with its hot pink facade, a sign beckons: LADIES DANCE.†   (source)
  • Some holes are simply unplayable—the grass rolled up like carpeting, the farmhouse with its beckoning mousehole collapsed in on itself.†   (source)
  • They shook hands, then Horst left the smithy, beckoning to Eragon on the way out.†   (source)
  • Her hands appeared from her sleeves—clawlike fingers beckoning me forward.†   (source)
  • The truth was, he didn't expect the shopkeeper to have any information, so he was surprised when the man beckoned him toward a high shelf, where a book was leaning between a miniature sphinx carved out of sandstone and a basket of dried camel tongues.†   (source)
  • Here was a city unlike any I had ever seen, another world, and it beckoned like books, like the passage to knowledge and the ripening spring of a new world; the city pulled me in, and although it would be another 12 years before I ended up there, it never let me go.†   (source)
  • Then he turned and beckoned to me.†   (source)
  • His little love was a tree, of course, but not like Brother—old, wide and beckoning.†   (source)
  • Several of them watched Kassad with the cartoon-character sares of their pressure-expanded eyes and seemed to beckon him closer with random, languid movements of arms and hands.†   (source)
  • Marley was whining softly, beckoning me to put down the shovel and head inside.†   (source)
  • Her voice was a beckoning.†   (source)
  • She beckoned me with her hand; and when I neared her, she took me by the arms and spun me around.†   (source)
  • I called in a muted voice, beckoning her over.†   (source)
  • I beckoned for her to come out.†   (source)
  • He held up one hand and beckoned me to come to him.†   (source)
  • Scatty yanked her sword out of the ground and used it to beckon to Flamel and Josh.†   (source)
  • The sky beckoned.†   (source)
  • It was several weeks later that Betsie opened the door from the hallway and beckoned to Father and me.†   (source)
  • I knew Nathan would be impatient for our return, so I beckoned to Leah.†   (source)
  • Just Tony beckoning and then darkness and a few minutes later he had come back to real things with a few vague fragments of memory, like a jumbled dream.†   (source)
  • "Hey," I said, beckoning him over.†   (source)
  • Momentarily there was a silence, but then an old woman with a turban who lived with her daughter and grandsons in the bedroom above Saeed and Nadia's, and whom Nadia had helped on more than one occasion to ascend the stairs, the old woman being regal in posture but also quite large, this old woman motioned to Nadia, beckoned Nadia to come stand at her side, to stand beside the garden chair on which she was sitting.†   (source)
  • I'll be back in a moment," Grandma said, sounding quite strange, beckoning me to remain there in the hallway by the door.†   (source)
  • She smiled, passing him, beckoning with her eyes.†   (source)
  • The expression on his face is pure rage, but he beckons me to go to him.†   (source)
  • The Brandy leans forward, beckoning Da5id toward her.†   (source)
  • The three dark figures silently beckoned me to follow them.†   (source)
  • From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked.†   (source)
  • A THIN, SCOWLING MATRON in a white bonnet beckons with a bony finger.†   (source)
  • She waved, cigarette in hand, beckoning him over.†   (source)
  • Snaking down the frozen expanse as if suspended from heaven, a single strand of ninemillimeter rope beckoned like Jack's beanstalk.†   (source)
  • He held up his hand and limply beckoned me closer.†   (source)
  • The girl had tucked herself behind a tree, not hiding, but also not beckoning me forward.†   (source)
  • Like it's the most normal thing in the world for me to be at her concert and for her to have beckoned me into her sanctum.†   (source)
  • However, before five minutes had passed, Mr Cardinal appeared in the doorway of the library and beckoned me over.†   (source)
  • In return, Tiurin had only to lift an eyebrow or beckon with a finger—and you ran and did what he wanted.†   (source)
  • It seemed to welcome me, to beckon.†   (source)
  • His eyes swept the crowd and found the Mirror Maze, the empty oblivion which beckoned with ten times a thousand million light years of reflections, counterreflections" reversed and double-reversed, plunging deep to nothing, facefalling to nothing, stomach-dropping away to yet more sickening plummets of nothing.†   (source)
  • Eventually the man picks up his helmet, slips it on, beckons to the woman, and seats her on his motorcycle.†   (source)
  • On the other side of the interstate, a new multiplex theater with twenty-four screens beckons students to cut class.†   (source)
  • She walked over to the door and beckoned him to join her outside.†   (source)
  • And he beckons me over to his desk.†   (source)
  • He handed the cup back to her with a special smile that beckoned friendship on the basis of the secret joke they now shared between them.†   (source)
  • Warm rooms and warm suppers beckoned them, and as they hurried away, leaving the cold square to the two gray cats, the miraculous autumn departed too; the year's first snow began to fall.†   (source)
  • The fork kept wiggling, beckoning.†   (source)
  • In the distance a beautiful island covered with palm trees and flowers beckoned invitingly from the sparkling water.†   (source)
  • He rises and begins gathering his things to go home, looking out the window again, thinking of his lovely wife, his successful grown kids, and his retirement place in Saint Kitts, which more and more is beckoning to him.†   (source)
  • The furthest line was big Unaka, but this passionate lover of her native highlands gave it neither thought nor glance, as she tramped steadily with lifted face, following unconsciously the beckoning finger of Fate.†   (source)
  • He beckoned to Artkin.†   (source)
  • Her other hand lifted and she curled her finger, beckoning Heath.†   (source)
  • Cecil beckons me forward with one hand.†   (source)
  • The naked women marching around the swimming pool, the corpses in the hearse rejoicing that she, too, was dead these were the down below she had feared and fled once before but which mysteriously beckoned her.†   (source)
  • Everyone was uneasy at being beckoned into the unknown.†   (source)
  • On another mattress, two teenage girls in their underwear, both pregnant, motioned to you, beckoned, offering.†   (source)
  • Hearing an urgent whisper behind him, he turned to see Lucia beckoning from the doorway.†   (source)
  • After a time Khanum Shaheen ventured out into the hall-way and beckoned for me to come into the office.†   (source)
  • Mau beckoned the child over and borrowed the new toy from him.†   (source)
  • She beckons me with her hand.†   (source)
  • When my Miss Finnegan would finally appear and beckon, I would trail her to her office, where we would sit awkwardly for a few minutes.†   (source)
  • Some of its lights were on, and the grand old place beckoned them.†   (source)
  • She beckoned to me and when I hesitated, she laughed.†   (source)
  • The attorney general crooks a finger, beckoning Louis Martin, a black newspaper publisher.†   (source)
  • My mother waves at me again, beckoning me toward freedom.†   (source)
  • With that he picked up his lilies, and then with a beckoning wave of his hand went hopping and dancing along the path eastward, still singing loudly and nonsensically.†   (source)
  • The statues' left hands were outstretched in a gesture of warding; their right hands were held closer to the breast in a gesture of beckoning.†   (source)
  • Fires are something that seemed part of my childhood, and they beckoned to me that there was another side to life I hadn't seen.†   (source)
  • She saw me then and seemed about to beckon me over to help her plead her case.†   (source)
  • Teeleh raised his wings in victory and beckoned the waiting throngs that still clung to the trees.†   (source)
  • People got dressed up and went promenading along Elm Street, where the shops beckoned under the streetlights.†   (source)
  • It was like he could beckon his drudge without even thinking about it—something he knew would freak Henry out.†   (source)
  • "Come up here," Manzoor said, delighted, beckoning Mortenson onto the cluttered platform, next to a headless dummy, pierced with pins.†   (source)
  • "Come here, Glass," he said, beckoning her over.†   (source)
  • I started toward a door that led into the house, beckoning the others after me—then tripped over something.†   (source)
  • I turned, seeing him beckon.†   (source)
  • I looked up and saw a white man, beckoning me to come to the glass.†   (source)
  • The empathetic new Medusa had beckoned with generosity, and in his bitterness he had come running.†   (source)
  • The familiar circle of blue light beckoned from above.†   (source)
  • "Bienvenida, hujja," La Madrina beckons in a voice hoarse with a vocation to the unfortunate.†   (source)
  • The toilet beckons and my body responds, evacuating Chopin and undigested mac and cheese every which way imaginable.†   (source)
  • He beckoned to Luciana to join in.†   (source)
  • Kyle beckoned with the cupped fingers of his right hand.†   (source)
  • When I began to hear other noises coming through the curtain—bells jingling on horse-drawn carts, the shouted voices of our bearers telling people, "Move out of the way," and the calls of street vendors beckoning customers to buy their joss sticks, candles, and other offerings that could be placed at the temple—I knew we had reached our destination.†   (source)
  • Where the path emerged from the garden, a white marble statue stood on a pedestal: a naked goddess with an arm raised as if beckoning to the upstairs windows.†   (source)
  • She lit candles and beckoned the lieutenant to follow.†   (source)
  • He beckoned again.†   (source)
  • Something was beckoning to him.†   (source)
  • Kwang nodded, beckoning me to eat and drink.†   (source)
  • (Beckoning) You wanna see†   (source)
  • "Ger-a agh-agh allowee," she mumbled, beckoning me in and brushing aside the thick cobwebs that drooped from the ceiling.†   (source)
  • You know — retirement beckons.†   (source)
  • He beckoned for Merle to follow but it was like Merle hadn't even noticed, just stood there kicking the side of that tire and making the poinsettias shake.†   (source)
  • He beckoned to the scarred man and waved to Glazier Estabrook.†   (source)
  • And there they rested till it came to high noon: and at noon Drinian looked up and saw the most beautiful lady he had ever seen; and she stood at the north side of the fountain and said no word but beckoned to the Prince with her hand as if she bade him come to her.†   (source)
  • I felt a momentary urge to beckon to her, perhaps have her try to escape with me.†   (source)
  • The growth on his neck beckoned him again.†   (source)
  • I was taking a few vegetables to market when I saw her beckoning me to come indoors.†   (source)
  • Today the blackberries bloomed and the dewberries beckoned and many folks went home to pick a few gallons for their home-baked cobblers.†   (source)
  • Suddenly Still beckoned to Harriet.†   (source)
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  • She beckoned with her fork to the woods.   (source)
    beckoned = pointed
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